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“neil demause”

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  • Field of Schemes

    How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan ...
    Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Brooklyn Wars

    The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York's Most Celebrated Borough

    by Neil deMause ...
    Across the globe, the word “Brooklyn” has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn’t see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change. In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful storyteller and award-winning journalist Neil deMause turns a spotlight on the borough’s transformation. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

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  • The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

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  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

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  • Authentic New Orleans

    Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy

    by Kevin Fox Gotham ...
    Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology SectionMardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter—all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for ... Read more

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  • The Creative Destruction of New York City

    Engineering the City for the Elite

    by Alessandro Busà ...
    Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's administration, many critics think that little has changed in the lives of struggling New Yorkers, ... Read more

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  • Street Kids

    Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets

    by Kristina E. Gibson ...
    Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. ... Read more

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  • New York's New Edge

    Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

    by David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso ...
    The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High ... Read more

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    The Inside Track

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  • Local Politics and National Policy

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    This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, changes in the national political arena, fiscal and administrative decentralization, as well as broader ... Read more

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